When we make pages that we want html people to maintain, it's been our experience that it's important that the layout pages are primarily html with the scriptin

When we make pages that we want html people to maintain, it's been our experience that it's important that the layout pages are primarily html with the scripting added to it rather than a scripted page with the html in a bunch of concatenated echo statements. Designers really hate the latter, and may charge you more if you expect them to work with something like that.